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- Scotland//fʉl//
- //fʊl//
- /[fʊɫ]/
Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
adjective
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Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.
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Complete; with nothing omitted.
Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.
Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to be a proper physician in the fullest sense of the word.
Virologist V. S. Kalyanaraman allegedly ordered the discarding of cultures of an AIDS-related virus isolated by French scientists. Some claim he wanted to substitute his own culture to insure fuller credit for the CDC in the event of a breakthrough.
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
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Complete; with nothing omitted. Surjective as a map of morphisms
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Complete; with nothing omitted. Including all morphisms. Formally: Such that for every pairs of objects (X, Y) in S, the hom-sets operatorname Hom_S(X,Y) and operatorname Hom_C(X,Y) are equal.
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Total, entire.
'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
She had tattoos the full length of her arms. He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
full member
full officer
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informalHaving eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
"I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.
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informalReplete, abounding with.
This movie doesn't make sense; it's full of plot holes.
I prefer my pizzas full of toppings.
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informalCarrying as much as possible.
Hang on - my hands are full; just let me put these down.
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Plump, round.
full lips; a full face; a full figure
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Having its entire face illuminated.
For on those evenings, when the moon is full and bright and clear, mothers and fathers in Siam tell their children to look up at the moon and then ask them what they see there.
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Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
a full pleated skirt; She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy.
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Having depth and body; rich.
a full singing voice
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obsoleteHaving the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
Reading maketh a full man.
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Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
She's full of her latest project.
Everyone is now full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.
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Filled with emotions.
The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
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obsoleteImpregnated; made pregnant.
Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.
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Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
nines full of aces
I'll beat him with my kings full!
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Drunk, intoxicated.
Mr. Coniff: That is the only evidence you gave of his being intoxicated, that his hat was on the side? […] Mr. Coniff: That is the only indication you gave the committee when you were asked if the judge was full, that his hat was on the side of his head; is that right?
Etymology
From Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish full. Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá). See also fele and Scots fou (whence the English doublet fou (“drunk”)). For the "drunk, intoxicated" sense, compare also Swedish full and other Scandinavian languages.
adverb
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archaicFully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
Prospero: I have done nothing but in care of thee, Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who Art ignorant of what thou art; naught knowing Of whence I am, nor that I am more better Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, And thy no greater father.
[…] full in the centre of the sacred wood
You know full well what makes me look so pale.
This cupboard[…] this other one, His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,
noun
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Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
The swan's-down feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide.
Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, Are emblems, rather than express the full Of what he feels.
I was fed to the full.
[…] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.
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The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: …
a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219, This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.
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A flip involving a complete turn in midair.
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An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
Etymology
From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.
verb
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To become full or wholly illuminated.
The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.
"By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"
"The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"
verb
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To baptise.
And thy diſciples fulleden men in thy name, in forgiueneſſe of her ſinnes.
Etymology
From Middle English fullen, fulwen (“to baptise”), from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from full- + *wīhan (later *wēon (“to make holy”)). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).
verb
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To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.
Etymology
From Middle English fullen (“to full”), from Anglo-Norman fuller, fuler, Middle French foller, fouler, from Old French foler, fouler (“to tread, stamp, full”), from Medieval Latin fullāre, from Latin fullō (“a fuller”). Compare Old English fullian (“to full”).
Forms
- plural
- fulls
- comparative
- fuller, more full
- superlative
- fullest, most full
- past tense
- fulled
- past participle
- fulled
- present participle
- fulling
- third person singular
- fulls
full · Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
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